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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Jesica Gonjeehn <jesica.gonjeehn101@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: jesica.gonjeehn1@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:56:00 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Greeting's




Hello

How are you, My name is Miss Jesica. i am single obviously it my pleasusre to contact you after view your contact mail which really get me very interested in knowing you more for a serious and urgent matter.I would appreciate if we get acquainted as soon as possible i have something serious to discuss with you, write me back



so that we can get to know each other better.for futher communication and Identification, quit believing that we can move from here since it takes one to know someone.



Thanks and remem bless.



I look forward to hear from you soon.



Yours,



Jesica

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